US marine's Iraq murder conviction overturned

[moe.ron]

The US military's highest court has overturned a murder conviction against a marine in one of the most significant cases against American troops from the Iraq war.

The court of appeals for the armed forces threw out the conviction of Sergeant Lawrence Hutchins, who has served about half of his 11-year sentence.

According to the ruling posted on the court's website on Wednesday, the judges agreed with Hutchins, who said his constitutional rights were violated when he was held in solitary confinement without access to a lawyer for seven days during his interrogation in Iraq.

Hutchins led an eight-man squad accused of kidnapping a retired Iraqi policeman from his home in April 2006, marching him to a ditch and shooting him dead in the village of Hamdania. None of the other squad members served more than 18 months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013...ion-overturned

Hmm, he could get away with murder

[Kevin]

Military justice.. such an oxymoron. This creep goes free while Michael Behenna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Behenna

remains incarcerated despite obvious and huge Brady violations.

[moe.ron]

Well, you also got a mercenary outfit getting a walk for torturing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib

Abu Ghraib case against CACI dismissed

Arlington-based CACI International secured a long-fought victory Wednesday when a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit alleging its employees directed mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The judge did not explicitly rule on CACI’s role in the alleged abuse, instead deciding that because the incidents happened overseas, the U.S. District Court in Alexandria does not have jurisdiction to hear the case.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...169_story.html